Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1947 — Page 3

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Is Well Off, but

Still ‘Gripes’ | Plenty of Livestock, | Short on Feed Crops

By JOHN W. LOVE Seripps-Howard Staff Writer | PARIS, Sept. 26. —Farmers in th best agricultural section of France— the people that city dwellers sa are now the country’s. richest— all feel sorry for themselves. | - They have a tale of woe for the. stranger. The woe | is plain enough in| the small sizes of | their potatoes and they confirm the report everywhere of the damage the | #4 A cold of last De-| | J" ou cember did to the| = fat a wheat, | SILO SOLO — Fig they nn, strom; Waukesha, 3 ateions tom to forts bis discontente . . Mr. Love the amount of “© i ro his underground livestock they have. They didn't| SIO. Halstrom plans to cut talk about it when the Germans the corn on his farm and fill were around and they are not talk- the silo so Lois will be able to ing now, climb. from the eight-foot hole. I have been questioning farmers, - . or pm village and city people about farm- W ing and the food supply. In Paris one darren Library is- informed the. farmers have more livestock on the land than ever be- : " fore, that they are putting their Names Assistants savings into it—even overgrazing he lane: Totsuse ney don't trust yu rren Central’ high- school

Peasant Days Are Over library assistants for the current Feed crops have been damaged, semester have been announced by and this was one of the chief la- Mrs. Jean Miers, head librarian. ments I heard. Clover, fodder and, The assistants are: beets for feed (as well as for sugar) | Jessiyn' Hall, Joan Cornelius, Mary took land which in normal times hance, Fiecost, Lows RCM. Rory would have been sown in grain Bills COOL EYL Sovcescclemn And..the. effect. of. .the..ALOURLE. O53 andme BNO... MALLS. .. ARISTON. AND. BA 80k 6 SE ME arf) yanin Brau... Mariisin ARIEEA Ap ur farmer where he has his savings. Students of Warren Central In the rich farming country be- will discuss current events and tween Orleans and Soissons the present day world issues in ‘a series people seem no longer what -Amer- of programs and panel discussions jcans think of as peasants. They ' charge of Wayne Murphy and farm anywhere from 50 to 350 Fred Pierpont, social studies teachacres, and one has 750. His 25 em- > ployees give him a lot of trouble— Irvin _Dinn, mathematics teachpaid vacations and all that. Many er at Warren Central, has been aphave electricity, a few have trac- pointed activities co-ordinator to}: Bl tors anda good many own special- schedule and prepare the calendar Ee ized tools like potato diggers. for all school activities. All the farmers I talked with com- I ————. plained of shortage of supplies, and Decatur Central Hi-Y there's no doubt of this. . About the ony way of coming at Lists New Members the subject of livestock is indirectly. pifteen new members have been tO Sautiously eek Mii voted into Decatur Central high elg. rs, an 0 f t; of i-Y: they are going to have to sell some og ® HY > Ulysess cattle because of the feed shortage. pice Joe Dillon, Wheeler Hardon, Does the farmer have the money ghgries Collins, Murray Mill, Ken-| « saved up for the tractor he’s uing ety Miller, Dave Butterworth, a a Yet a then he can poner Mannon, Baers Ratliel, : | William Thompson, William Mills, a Sue Stanjards for any Te Grover Owens, Richard Shedd and ; er nea. pes 10 Wayne Reeve. ! the winter was going to be a hard A roe and Sunday several one for everybody. He was going t0| .opresentatives of Decatur chapter sell some of his cattle pretty soon yi|] attend the Marion County because he eouldn’t cary them ri v Officers’ Training conference through the winter. He didn’t need ;¢ ndianapolis Y. M. C. A. camp to go to town because all his prod- at gt, Paul, Ind. They are Junior uce was picked up by truck, the paimer, Robert Seerley, James Tutstores didn’t have things he wanted wiler and George Oberle, to be acto buy, ard besides he didn’t need companied by Lewis Lyons) sponvery much. sor. These are the folks the govern- ee etna ment officials in Paris almost despair of dealing with. Bell Moves to Extend Inquiring Americans are told that Mobile Phone Service in te ou BOS hii the} sn be Indiana Bell Telephone Co. today living of everybody alte to that of announced it has filed application ihe farmer. He tied to eat’ meat for a second communication chanOhce & week and BOW he eats it nel for “urban mobile telephone every day. Some day the 120100Y service with the federal communiu Y J cations commission, worker may be able to do the same.

es New “automobile telephone” transmission and receiving facilities Decatur Central Paper which will double the present ‘Announces New Staff system will be added as soon as . authority is received, L. W. ShuThelma Clarkson will head the ,orer division manager, said. staff of Decatur Central high school ' : “Clarion,” the bi-weekly newspaper, as editor-in-chief,

Since last December when the service was inaugurated with The Times as the first subscribe ) Other staff members are: d " dt . Best 9 : es: the Vers Owens. mssosiate editor: Robert eman or mobile service has inForguton, featiire writer: Chester Cooper creased until now there are about and Ralph . lar, sports. writers; Virgil gn i i McCloud and James Osborne, art egitors 80 commercial and private vehicles Dorothy Wright, editorials; Arthur Bow. SO equipped. man and Junior Langston, business man- nh m— agers, Shannon Milburn, exchange edito

Prieds Suiphin, * Rosie Drews Auditions Scheduled

Pauline Larrison and Laura Covey, De os amy Jackeon, de. "P Ear Teen Canteen Show " | Auditions for the new Teen Canreturns From France teen show to open in October on { Mrs, Cecil W. Weathers, president radio station WFBM are scheduled tf Indiana University Women's club for Saturday afternoon in the WFBM i Indianapolis has returned from studios from 1 to 4 o'clock. Teen4 two-months’ stay in Paris. While agers interested in trying out for mn Paris she participated in round speaking parts, singers, impersonafable discussions - among French tors, and vocal groups are invited, {teachers of English at Lycee. The committee on arrangements Michelet, ; includes Don Shelhorn, Rebecca Lane, and Louise Sparks.

i wimp —— " CENTRE LODGE TO MEET - Centre lodge, F. & A. M, will JOINS PAINT FIRM meet at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the . . : 1 W. F. Nixon, sales engineer and] Sooitin Rite Satie) dor, the advertising . executive, - has joined| on Sr wy rr Ear igi Lilly Paint Products, Inc. Indian-| egree by Terbert nnarc an apolis, as secretary-treasurer of the| George Friederichs, secretary of the firm. He was formerly with Reilly Centre lodge, Tar & Chemical Co,

DISEASE RESISTANT POTATOES _ TT ,_- More than 34 new disease-resist--FLECTION IS SET ant varieties of potatoes have been The woman's auxiliary of the Indeveloped in the past 15 years by dianapolis police department will the U, 8. department of agricul- have election of officers at a meetture, ing tomorrow at 1:30 p. m. :

In the Service— Naval Lt. Howard Miner Gets Belated Gold Star

Naval reserve lieuténant, Howard! Larry P. Reilly, who served durW. Miner, 5141 Park ave, who ing the war with the navy civil “served four years in the South Pa. engineer corps at Norfolk, Va, 18

cific witha naval aviation unit, has atfending a two-weeks' seminar for the study of naval shore facilities received a belated 1

citation for’ the | {being held in Washington and Lp

y folk. vy ‘gold star { a | Mr. Reilly is on leave of absence

The gold star \from his position as assistant dis-| was given Mr. {tric airport engineer with the U. 8. Miner in lieu of a department of commerce in Indisecond air medal. |anapolis, Mr. Miner, now | | Homer E. Robertson, son of Mrs. employed by East« {Mable Robertson, 1144 Prospect st. ern Airlines, was 'has been promoted to corporal while | graduated from stationed with the army of occupa-| Wabash college

; tion at Tomioka, Japan. last June, and re- Wo MIRET | piri class cook, - Augustus M. - cently completed a period of active Demmon, 806 W. 27th st. has been duty with a reserve flying unit at awarded the navy good conduct the naval air station at Glen- medal while serving at the naval

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